Sr. Software Engineer, Falcon NG-SIEM, FrontTier Expansions (Hybrid)

CrowdStrike • Austin, TX

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build software systems for its global LogScale/NG-SIEM infrastructure. The FrontTier Expansions team enables LogScale fleets to run reliably across AWS, GCP, OCI, and CrowdStrike-managed datacenters. The role owns core services and automation frameworks that make multi-cloud expansion fast, safe, and repeatable, while mentoring engineers and raising the team's engineering standards. The platform ingests more than 100 PB of event data daily, supports decade-long data retention, serves millions of queries per hour, and serves thousands of customers worldwide.

This is a hybrid position requiring 2–3 days per week onsite at CrowdStrike’s Austin, Texas office. The engineer will design and operate services and automation for multi-cloud infrastructure, contribute to platform-wide libraries, strengthen observability and reliability, and help deliver secure, scalable infrastructure. The position also participates in a global production on-call rotation.

CrowdStrike describes itself as a global cybersecurity leader with a mission to stop breaches. The company emphasizes flexibility and autonomy, responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. The posted U.S. base salary range is $140,000–$220,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of full-time experience in a service-oriented backend developer role; the posting notes average experience of 10–15 years.
• At least 5 recent years developing microservices for a SaaS product in Go, Python, or a similar object-oriented/backend language.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or OCI), and willingness and ability to learn others.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalability challenges, and multithreading/concurrency concepts.
• Experience designing and building production microservices, automation tooling, or infrastructure-as-code frameworks.
• Experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting applications in production Kubernetes clusters.
• Experience with configuration management or IaC tooling such as Chef, Ansible, or Terraform.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, Git, Artifactory, or Bitbucket.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts such as VPCs, load balancers, and DNS.
• Understanding of security-first design principles, including authentication, authorization, encryption, and audit logging.
• Thorough understanding of engineering best practices, including testing paradigms, code review, and resilient architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and raise a team’s technical standards.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with distributed, cross-functional teams across time zones.
• Self-starter mentality and ability to own problems end-to-end and drive them to resolution.
• Availability to participate in an on-call rotation.
• Proven experience using AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency, and drive business outcomes.

Nice To Haves

• Expert-level Go skills.
• Experience with multiple cloud platforms, including AWS, GCP, OCI, or Azure.
• Experience with LogScale/Humio, Kafka, or other distributed streaming/log-management systems.
• Experience with data lake/lakehouse architectures or data federation at scale.
• Kubernetes operator or Helm development experience, or CKA/CKAD/CKS certification.
• SRE practices experience, including SLOs and error budgets, and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Cloud certifications (AWS/GCP/OCI) and FinOps or cost-optimization experience.
• Open-source contributions and effective use of AI coding assistants.
• Computer science degree or commensurate experience; cybersecurity/SIEM background.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own core services and libraries supporting multi-cloud deployment and operation of LogScale fleets across AWS, GCP, OCI, and on-premises datacenters.
• Develop automation tooling and microservices to standardize provisioning, upgrading, and scaling infrastructure and platform components across cloud providers.
• Build and extend observability tooling, including tracing, profiling, alerting, and SLO frameworks, to provide insight into fleet health.
• Architect capacity planning, workload forecasting, and dynamic scaling solutions across heterogeneous cloud environments.
• Contribute to and improve shared-tier libraries and frameworks used across the NG-SIEM/LogScale platform.
• Lead technical design for version upgrades, patch orchestration, and configuration management systems that minimize customer impact.
• Implement security-first infrastructure designs, including authentication, authorization, encryption, and audit logging, aligned with cybersecurity standards and compliance requirements.
• Adopt GitOps methodologies and DevSecOps best practices in CI/CD pipelines.
• Serve as a technical lead and liaison between FrontTier Expansions and internal stakeholders on infrastructure and platform capabilities.
• Design, deploy, and troubleshoot services running in Kubernetes clusters across managed and self-managed environments.
• Mentor engineers on distributed systems design, cloud architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Promote best practices for reliable, scalable software and raise the team's technical standards.
• Participate in a global production infrastructure on-call rotation.
• Continuously reassess architecture, performance, and reliability as the platform expands to new clouds and customers.

Benefits

• Market-leading compensation and equity awards.
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs.
• Competitive vacation and holidays.
• Paid parental and adoption leaves.
• Professional development opportunities for all employees, regardless of level or role.
• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities.
• Vibrant office culture with world-class amenities.
• Health insurance.
• 401(k).
• Paid time off.
• Eligibility for bonuses and equity grants.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed